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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Don't Wince. Fight! — Dick Cheney, Most Valuable Republican. — When accused of being too aggressive on behalf of the United States at the United Nations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of repeating a French proverb: “Cet animal est fort méchant, / Quand on l'attaque il se défend.”
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Mike Madden / Salon:
Cheney's torture trap for Democrats — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 14, 2009. — You might have thought getting torture back in the news would be a bad move for any Republican; after all, it was the Bush administration that authorized the torturing.
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Orange County Register:
Steyn: Pelosi's tortured press performance — Let's just cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in a CIA safe house somewhere. — Recommend — Uh-oh. Nancy Pelosi's performance at her press conference re: waterboarding has raised, according to The Washington Post …
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Speaker Pelosi Lied? N.Y. Times Puts It On Page A-18 — The top of the front page of Friday's Washington Post was all about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's press conference in which she accused the CIA of deliberately misleading her in 2002 about waterboarding.
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Yes, Nancy, There Really Is a God Nemesis — There is an odd sense among Democrats that nemesis simply does not exist. A once-vein-bulging Al Gore who barnstormed the country slurring President Bush by calling him a liar now seems baffled about the precedent he set of a vice president …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:Pelosi May 2002 Statement Casts Further Doubt On Her Claims
Washington Post:
Republican Governor of Utah Selected to Be Envoy to China — Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (R) will be introduced today as President Obama's choice as ambassador to China, a source familiar with the decision said last night. — Huntsman, 48, was mentioned this spring as a potential Republican contender …
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The Politico:
Huntsman chosen ambassador to China — President Barack Obama named Republican Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. as his pick for ambassador to China, likely removing one of his strongest potential challengers in the 2012 presidential campaign from the running. — In an unusual Saturday …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:Huntsman to China, 2012 Aspirations Fade
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Conservatives Map Strategies on Court Fight — WASHINGTON — If President Obama nominates Judge Diane P. Wood to the Supreme Court, conservatives plan to attack her as an “outspoken” supporter of “abortion, including partial-birth abortion.” — If he nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor …
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:Sessions Favors Judge for High Court
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama abroad: Ghana, Italy, Moscow — The president, with an avowed goal of reengaging the United States in international diplomacy on a wide array of fronts, will add Africa to his travels abroad this summer. — The White House, in announcing today the date of a trip to Moscow …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A trip to Africa — Along with expected stops in Russia and Italy, Obama will visit Africa in July — a month after his trip to Egypt. — It's a bit more international travel than some had expected, with the understanding that his domestic focus would leave Secretary of State Clinton the international profile.
Victoria Toensing / Wall Street Journal:
Critics Still Haven't Read the ‘Torture’ Memos — The CIA proposed the methods. The Justice Department gave its advice. — Printer — Friendly — Sen. Patrick Leahy wants an independent commission to investigate them. Rep. John Conyers wants the Obama Justice Department to prosecute them.
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Jonah Lehrer / New Yorker:
DON'T! — The secret of self-control. — In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a “game room” at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. The room was little more than a large closet, containing a desk and a chair.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Reveals Classified Information? — Joe Biden is proving impossible to parody. — In one of the few funny jokes at the White House correspondents dinner, Wanda Sykes won loud laughter when she joked that terrorists interested in learning America's most important secrets would only have to ask Biden how he's doing.
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Aims to Trim Party's Money Gap With GOP — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking up a new role for the Democratic Party: Fund-Raiser-in-Chief. — This Sunday, following his commencement speech at Notre Dame, he headlines a $15,000-a-couple event in Indianapolis.
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